[cap-talk] How desirable / feasible is a persistent OCAP language?

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 25/07/2008, at 16.17, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 21:44 +0200, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>> Experience with the windows registry shows that a system registry can
>grow
>> up to many many megabytes, which affects directly the startup time and
>> other registry operations.
>> A database whould be a better option.
>
>The registry *is* a database. It's just a very badly *implemented*
>database.

Worse than that: recovery of the registry is a very big pain.

>
>In short: a typical MS first try: get it into the field and deal with
>performance only when you cannot stand the pain any more.

It isn't that long.

>
>Which actually isn't a bad philosophy for production software if cost
>management is a significant concern.
>
>
>shap
>
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